10 Longest Words in the English Language

10 Longest Words in the English Language

Last Updated: Dec 30, 2019
How many words exactly are in the English language? The second edition of the current 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use. That’s a lot! Which gets the mind thinking the next question, what’s the longest word in current use today?

Many of the longest words in the dictionary refer to medicine or chemistry. You’ll find a few defined in here along with other long words that you may or may not already use. Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines the ten longest words in the English language.

1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

Pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.

2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)

Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest work in the dictionary and is the name for a fear of long words! Who would have thought, right?

3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)

Perhaps the best word of all! Made popular by the film Mary Poppins, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is something to say when you have nothing to say.

4. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)

A relatively mild form of pseudohypoparathyroidism that is characterized by normal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood.

5. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)

The longest unchallenged nontechnical word that not all directories recognize, that including Merriam-Webster. According to alternative sources, floccinaucinihilipilification is the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless. Often times, it is used in a humorous way.

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6. Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)

A term referring to a political movement in 19th century Britain that sought to separate church and state. In this case, political movement wanted to disestablish the Church of England as the official state church of England, Ireland and Wales.

7. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)

The longest word in Shakespeare’s works. Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels.

8. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)

A medical term that defines the excision of both the thyroid and parathyroid glands.

9. Dichlorodifluoromethane (23 letters)

A chlorofluoromethane CF2Cl2.

10. Incomprehensibilities (21 letters)

Impossible to comprehend. In the 1990’s, incomprehensibilities set the record as the longest word “in common usage.”

LONGEST ENGLISH WORD:Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine (189,819 letters)

If we’re talking chemistry, the longest chemical name is 189,819 letters long. It is the chemical name for titin, a giant filamentous protein essential to the structure, development, and elasticity of muscle. As to whether or not this is an actual word is disputed by many. It is not in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, so you shouldn’t ever have to worry about spelling it. ?

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Comments

  • Hunter
    Reply

    “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…” is the longest word known on a computer (probably) but when I think of it, I freak out a bit, when I’m afraid, I think I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

  • 2b
    Reply

    Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (29 letters) Fear of the product of 6*111

  • Anoymous
    Reply

    Haha now imagine the entire human body was encoded into one chemical word

  • Dyabo
    Reply

    The shortest word is a.

    Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter. However, since all languages have spoken forms, but not all have written forms, the writing system is actually a poor measure of word length, and a is best considered the shortest word in English. That is, a word doesn’t have to be written in order to exist in a language. It simply has to be a free form.

    • Sandra Oken

      Wow, you sure are intelligent
      I think it’s Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

  • 1234
    Reply

    Micropachycephalosaurus a small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. 24 letters

    • LLL

      phemoneultramicoscopicsilicovolcanoconiousis supercalifragiclisticexpeleoducies antidisestablishmaterialism there alll i know

  • PinkCat1894
    Reply

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    FROM MEMORY

  • Me!
    Reply

    Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu 85 letters

    • Shaun Bohol Van Cleef

      This is my number1 word
      pneumonoultramicrosopcgallopjojfrondhallerdaverthasdeller

  • Ummmmm hi
    Reply

    This is my number1 word pneumonoultramicrosopcgallopjojfrondhallerdaverthasdeller

  • guy who know words
    Reply

    the big 5 words i know
    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
    pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
    antidisestablishmentarianism
    lol

    • Rachel Griffiths

      lol pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • CoolAlligatorBoy
    Reply

    shouldn’t administeredintravenouslyhomeopathicphlebotomotologist be the longest?

    • i know long words

      Yes. Because administeredintravenouslyhomeopathicphlebotomologist has an insane 54 letters.

    • E

      What does it mean?

    • Sara

      Ten longest words I know of:
      10. Honorificabilitudinitatibus
      9. Floccinanccinihilipilification
      8.Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies
      7.Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
      6.Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops
      5.Osseocaynisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary
      4.Acqucosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic
      3.Bababadalgharaghtakamminapronnkonnbronntonnepronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk
      2.Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
      1. Chemical name of titin
      (By the way, these words are NOT gibberish…)

    • Ummmmm hi

      typdermsyfialopgarsothaverkaltormanterfolponlavterdelavstermallfoantsrianfsanhalaropgarter is the longest word

  • CoolAlligatorBoy
    Reply

    I know how to pronounce Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia but shouldn’t administeredintravenouslyhomeopathicphlebotomotologist be the longest?

  • bro
    Reply

    Quattuorquinquagintillion – 25 letters

  • bro
    Reply

    also this Quattuorquinquagintillion

  • Clara
    Reply

    WOW

  • isaiah
    Reply

    shouldent dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes and sphenopalatinegangleoneuralgia be up there

    • Nontando

      How about :Antidisestablishmentarianism

  • jacobe
    Reply

    the actual longest word besides the insane 189k word is talillunihifiphiliophicatertyuiopoponolociuytiouan
    which has an insane 50 letters.

    another underrated long word is theorosaurinopouaisessnesses. Standing at 28 words.

  • Evanboy299
    Reply

    How about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • K8

      supercalifragilisticexpeadlidocious gets too much credit for being the longest. It’s not even that long compared to some others. What about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or hippopotmonstrosesquipidaliphobia?

  • louisa
    Reply

    im gonna try and add a long word into my stories

  • georgia
    Reply

    all i know is how to spell hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and floccinaucinilihipilification

  • Briana
    Reply

    I didn’t know the longest word had 189,819 letters! that’s ALOT!

  • A Dictionary of Difficult Words
    Reply

    what about Zagnothratrus (13 letters)?

    • k8

      puny

    • Anoymous

      The biggest word you can get from numbers is Quattuorquinquagintillion and google accepts it, 25 letters.

  • Alex(urmom)
    Reply

    I only know hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    • Malcolm

      ah yes, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words. wait what

  • mohammed
    Reply

    I can not prononce none of them

    • Lee ha-eun

      The words are hard but if you study them every time, it’ll become much easier

    • Rei

      I only know supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and hippopotamonstrosesqueppedophobia

    • OgRainbowCloud

      Me neither, Rei

  • Jasara
    Reply

    Just to be mean, I am going to put hippopotomonstroesquippedaliophobia in my next book and make people go google it to find out what it means

    • sam

      whats your book name

  • Rudra Naman Sahu
    Reply

    Yes the longest word more than 100 That is very Interesting

  • I have hippomonstrosesquippadaliaphobia
    Reply

    I think they just used a bot to pronounce it…

    • Titin chemical name MEthionyl

      sounds like it, so i think you’re right.

  • abby
    Reply

    i know how to spell 4 of those words without even writing it down and i can spell all of them (except the one thats 189,819 letters) with writing them down

    • akd

      wow your good

  • soleil
    Reply

    i did not know that there was even a word over 100 letters but that 189,819 letter word is amazing

    • amy

      yeah that amazing

  • The guy on the internet
    Reply

    I also came onto this website because I was gonna make a 26 letter Wordle

  • Bertha Butte
    Reply

    Semiphotospectroheliographically and
    interdenominationalistically

  • Sam Greenfield
    Reply

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) IS A BABY COMPARED TO Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine (189,819) letters.

    • CoolPup_603

      i know dude. it takes 3 hours to say

  • steve-bright
    Reply

    that was only 4.6 star

  • Miguel Luna
    Reply

    nuh moan uh ultra micro scopic sili co volcano con EE oh sis

    and that’s how you pronounce the longest word

    • e

      pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis typed from memory

    • Will Snozcumber

      i pronounce it as new-mo-no-ol-tra-mi-cro-sco-pic-sil-ico-volcano-coen-ee-oe-sis

    • OgRainbowCloud

      I can spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. All from memory

  • ……………………………………………………………….
    Reply

    supercalifragalisticexpalidocios

    • Jjjjj

      It’s like Super calee fraj eles tick expee ali dow SHUS!

  • Kissnelson
    Reply

    What about sophisticatedxenotransplantation? I think you left this out.

  • Logan
    Reply

    Incomprehensibilities is wrong it would actually be

    Rhombicosidodecahedron with 22 total charcters

  • dot
    Reply

    L-o-n-g-e-s-t words on earth:
    1: THE WORD (Long version of Titin)(189,819 letters)
    2:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    3:Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (kind of ironic, it means fear of long words)
    4:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (I’ve been knowing how to say this for YEARS)
    5:Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
    6:Floccinaucinihilipilification

    So… i can only pronounce one of em

    • e

      I can pronounce all but the first one fluently.

  • Kevin
    Reply

    The longest words is smiles, there’s a mile between each s!

    • Maqsood pathan

      Very fantastic words

  • John W.
    Reply

    My 1st graders learned that the longest word in English is SMILES. There’s a mile between each S! :)

    • robecka

      GOOD JOB

    • CoolPup_603

      Lol. Good one

  • Sofia
    Reply

    This word is long I mean 189’…
    😨what
    ❤❤❤❤❤❤.

  • .
    Reply

    dont forget methionyl­threonyl­threonyl­glutaminyl… too long so i made …

    • Pach Alier

      Amazing. I came across ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’ while reading a book. This made me decide to learn the longest words.

  • Chobbis
    Reply

    I love visiting this website when i’m at school so i can avoid doing work! Thank you, commenters and site owners. You helped me through school.

    • Lillian

      same lol

    • Milly

      Im doing that right now lol

    • CoolPup_603

      bruh lol.

  • chace trammel
    Reply

    at least you didn’t watch it 999999999999999999999999999999999…9 times

    • ???????????

      And I thought photosynthesis was a long word

  • Hi
    Reply

    I always say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • Ethan

      TAKES ABOUT 1 HOUR TO PRONOUNCE THE LONGEST WORD 189819 LETTERS OMG

    • Leasia Hart

      That’s great you’re learning new words

    • CoolPup_603

      actually it takes 3 hours to say the longest word with 189819 letter. if you didnt know. lol

  • Sussy Baka
    Reply

    The longest word is in this Wikipedia Page https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Protologisms/Long_words/Titin

  • banana
    Reply

    PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaSupercalifragilisticexpialidociousPseudopseudohypoparathyroidismFloccinaucinihilipilificationAntidisestablishmentarianismHonorificabilitudinitatibusThyroparathyroidectomizedDichlorodifluoromethaneIncomprehensibilitiesMethionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine

    • Hi

      It’s top ten

  • Jaj
    Reply

    How about Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz

  • Word Man
    Reply

    This is a nice list, really helps me out and it’s just fun to look at.

  • Not telling you my name
    Reply

    you forgot the word “greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • Not telling you my name
    Reply

    the longest word is marathon. a marathon is very long.🤣🤣🤣hehehehe

  • person the persons
    Reply

    these are long

  • Mega long words
    Reply

    wheres dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (31), A word that my freinds use but idk it (probably 30), ethylenediaminetetraacetate(s) (27, 28), antidisestablishmentarianisms (29), Spookydisharmoniousconflicthellride (35), Radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26), (Idk if this is a word) Immun oelec troen cepha logra phers (30), and supersunnyspeedgraphics (22)

  • Mega long words
    Reply

    Radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26)
    Spectrophotofluorometrically (I might’ve spelled it wrong) (27)
    Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (28)
    Counterimmunoelectrophoresis (28)
    Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (31)

  • cali
    Reply

    conbend all of the words together to make one long long long word!

    • OGBEIDE GABRIEL

      Great

  • Rosie
    Reply

    OMG SO COOL. LOVED IT

  • tk :)
    Reply

    I know how to pronounce and spell PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS!
    p.s i am under 12 yr old

    • Sarcastic Guy

      wow! great job!

    • Someone

      Same, I learned how to spell it in year 3 LOL.

    • Gary

      But! Can you spell it backwards? LOL

  • n00b101
    Reply

    what about aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

  • scooby doo
    Reply

    lengthy words

  • a guy i guess
    Reply

    Forgot Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • billy the 5 year old
    Reply

    this is so cool

  • idk im not using a name but ok
    Reply

    I think they’re missing Hexamethylenetetramine which is longer than Incomprehensibilities

  • Zara
    Reply

    I wish for there to be a language with each word at least 30 letters!

    • ENGLISH…

      ME TOOOO
      It’d be like super cool to learn all of it!

    • e

      Count me in.

  • Alexander Henderson-Hill
    Reply

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest name for a town and it is in Wales

    • Miguel Luna

      Insane!

  • Anonymous
    Reply

    Micropachycephalosaurus has 23 letters

    • Gary

      That’s nice, but do you know the meaning?

  • Matthew Glazer
    Reply

    Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia should be on here, the fear of the number 666 (29 letters)

  • Matthew Glazer
    Reply

    bro you forgot Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, the fear of the number 666. (29 letters)

  • Nolan
    Reply

    hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is actually a real word not made up for the sake of making up a long word.

    • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisantidisestablishmentarianismsupercalifragilisticexpialidocious

      It’s actual name is sesquipedaliophobia or sesquipedalophobia, and the long name is just for a joke. So yes, it is made up.

    • Michael Oguntade

      I’m learning.

  • yay
    Reply

    I know this word
    1. Demisemihemidemisemiquavers

  • someone
    Reply

    i can pronounce hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia oh and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • Anothe 10 year old
    Reply

    What about the word that takes 3 hours to say?

  • Danielle Garcia Johnson
    Reply

    Trimethylsiloxyamodimethicone (29) letters long I believe if I counted correctly. Unsure of meaning though, sorry.

    • DO YOU THINK IMMA FUCKING GIVE MY NAME BITCH

      Rhombicosidodecahedron 22 letters

  • sharan
    Reply

    I found a 18 long word in a book SLOB try to find it its in the first few pages.

  • Kyale Cooks
    Reply

    such a hard word

  • aaaaaaaaaaaaa
    Reply

    antidisestablishmentarianism

  • long word goverment
    Reply

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

  • serenity
    Reply

    cool

  • h4krb01
    Reply

    antideestablishmentarianism (27 letters i think)

  • Viccus
    Reply

    Idk why must words be so long,it is so confusing

  • Anonymous
    Reply

    Imagine being able to play these words in Scrabble

  • DIBL
    Reply

    Pretty sure the second one is a phobia of something about a hippo

  • Thyroparathyroidectomized
    Reply

    This is the longest words Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) …
    Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) …
    Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) …
    Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters) …
    Dichlorodifluoromethane (23 letters) …
    Incomprehensibilities (21 letters)

  • unknown
    Reply

    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • That person
    Reply

    I have developed
    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

  • Elijah Mcfadden
    Reply

    i have a name elijahleroyguilliotericmcfadden that is 31 letters in all

  • peyton haynes
    Reply

    hey look longest word in the worldMethionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl … isoleucine

  • Mr. Anonymous
    Reply

    pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, a normal mix of chemicals and such in the bloodline (if i am correct on the definition) was left out, i think

  • MEEEEEEEEEEE=GOOOOOOOD
    Reply

    this website is good

  • Not Triskaidekaphobic
    Reply

    Friggatriskaidekaphobia (23)
    Paraskevidekatriaphobia (23)

  • Taylor
    Reply

    This is a very great website!

  • Some Random Sesquipedalianophile
    Reply

    Lol I can pronounce all of these words in the comments with with ease (Except for the one with over 190,000 letters)

  • I’m 7
    Reply

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, Easiest For Me

  • I’m 7
    Reply

    The Easiest Word For Me Is….Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Wah………………………………….I Can’t Send That

  • I’m 7
    Reply

    The Easiest Word For Me Is….Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • Austin
    Reply

    tbh im happy i get to know all these knew long words the more you know i guess XD

  • liam
    Reply

    how about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolconoconiosis suposed to be a lung disease 45 letters

  • Krita Shankar
    Reply

    There is a 45 letter word-
    Pnemoniaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • V
    Reply

    Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung (36) is a very long word, too bad it’s not English, meaning Motor vehicle liability insurance :)

  • CSE
    Reply

    Ritualtaniarosphoresiclaresdintrosiscolorophobicditanicsolaricdistoarisgolarisformessisanius

  • Stephen
    Reply

    I am 14 years and an explosive chemistry enthusiast. I just found out this name: diazidocarbamoylpentaazidotetrazole at 35 letters

  • Amos
    Reply

    Palopapalopacommanderzabrawhosalarextrabozatifixnality

  • Someone
    Reply

    pinakanakakapagngitngitngitngitangpagsisinungasinungalingan
    Is a compound word meaning “to keep making up a lie that causes the most extreme anger while pretending your not

  • Rodine
    Reply

    Pneumonoultramicroseopicsilicovolcanoconioidis

  • Spectroheliokinematographical – 29 letters
    Reply

    Thermometrographically – 24 letters

    • Spectroheliokinematographical – 29 letters

      Thermometrograph – a thermometer that records temperature variations on a graph as a function of time.

  • siphiwumusa
    Reply

    pnoninofisnonamanoni what a complication

  • Caroline Jupp
    Reply

    Esophagpgpastroduodenoscopy 26 letters easy acronym egd scope

  • TBGaming
    Reply

    I knew only a few of these words and also some of the words in the comments section like antidisestablishmentarianism, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, anti-countercountermeasures, counterrevolutionaries and also some other words I knew the meaning of but forgot the spelling. This website is fun!

  • Levi Nelson
    Reply

    how about “nonanonacontanonactanonaliagon”
    It’s a 9,999 sided polygon I’m pretty sure

  • Furyattacker101
    Reply

    lol the longest word has an hour long video of a computer generated voice pronouncing it. lol

  • THERE IS NO WAY I AM PUTTING MY NAME ON THIS
    Reply

    kakorraphiophobia fear of failure
    I learned it from…
    “I see a dreamer” by CG5.
    I am listening to it right now LOL.

    • Birb

      Thats a good song

  • Susan R Stephenson
    Reply

    Thank you all. That was fun and I like knowing there are so many of us logophiles “word nerds” or sesquipedalianophiles (someone one who loves long words – I think I made this up – sort of) out there :)

    • Brandon Draves

      Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, (31) commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts. DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by the Austrian chemist Othmar Zeidler

    • Abubakar Hassan

      I can’t floccinaucinihilipilificate this

    • John

      In which order of length is
      Indistinguishablessness

    • Paul

      Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious

    • Playbackspeed 2

      go to the settings button and go to playback speed and set it to 2 ;)

    • Awais

      good

  • AlwaysThinkPositive
    Reply

    Anti-counterrevolutionaries

    • Mustopha Abdulrauf

      Wow, really love this

    • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • Some Other Words
    Reply

    radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26), u need defenition so it means: radiommunoelectrophoresis in which the substances separated in the electrophoretic system are identified by radioactive labels on antigens or antibodies.
    psychoneuroendocrinological (27) means: it is the clinical study of hormone fluctuations and their relationship to human behavior. It may be viewed from the perspective of psychiatry, where in certain mood disorders, there are associated neuroendocrine or hormonal changes affecting the brain.
    quinquagintaquadringentilliard (30) it’s some really high number

    • Evan

      Skewes number might be an even larger number because it is equal to 10 to the
      10th power to the10th power to the 34th power.

    • SATAYABRAT DWIVEDI

      Chloriauxychloroquine

    • Aid

      Heya quinquagintaquadringentilliard is equivalent to 153 digits
      (10^153)

    • Pneomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      what about Psychoneuroendocrinologically?

  • hi
    Reply

    you forgot greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather lol

    • hola

      lol ikr

  • Karishannaliyamiyesariasheleya
    Reply

    ‘Karishannaliyamiyesariasheleya’is my name 😊

    • Lmao

      You have to literally make it your username just to remember it.

  • Anonymous
    Reply

    That’s nice 😊

    • Katumba isimail

      For me I new only ante- interdinorminationallistically as the longest word in English but a really out competed

  • Jagged Peak
    Reply

    Methanidylidynesilanylium has 25 letters and is the chemical compound of silicon and carbon, a.k.a. silicon carbide!

    • zawwar Mehboob

      Perhydrocyclopentanophenanthrene its even longer its a cholesterol compound.

    • Hewwo :3

      I came up with 1: supercalifragilisticexpialidociousnesses. 40 letter

  • olivia
    Reply

    why would anyone make a 189,891 letters long word

    • Kath Lawton

      Good Question.

  • rhonda
    Reply

    what about rhombicosidodecahedron

  • Alek Sander
    Reply

    The longest words belong to Science!

    • Junas kujur

      I like this kinds of words to learn in some unquie ways.

  • nonanonacontanonactanonalia
    Reply

    nonanonacontanonactanonaliagon is longest name for a polygon

    • hehe

      Rhombicosidodecahedron is one of my favorites

    • Alek Sander

      Nonanonacontanonactanonaliagon is a 9,999-sided polygon.

    • kiki

      pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

  • Cole the 10 year old
    Reply

    what about precipitevolissimevolmente
    which is a 26-letter-long adverb.

    • Sally

      I’m so new on this app and i never will need it again bc i have now learned all the big huge words

  • sksk
    Reply

    ummmm another word with 27 letters is ethylenediaminetetraacetate that you forgot

    • Sana

      Hewhomustnotbenamed lol #potterhead

  • Kyliah Williams
    Reply

    This Website Is Pretty Cool! 😎

    • Zie

      These words are making me Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious🤣🤣🤣🙌

    • Jessica

      Agreed! Absolutely incredible xD

  • yup meeeeeeeeeeee Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    Reply

    tetrahydrocannabinol (20 letters): tetrahydrocannabinol stands for psychoactive substance present in marijuana.

    • Michael Ayodeji

      What about your “cognitivisibilitudinaligraphicaliticalisticality

  • yup meeeeeeeeeeee Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
    Reply

    forget hyperbetalipoproteinemia (24 letters): hyperbetalipoproteinemia stands for a genetic disorder characterized by high levels of beta-lipoproteins and cholesterol.

  • THE LEGEND
    Reply

    Longest place name = llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

    • yup meeeeeeeeeeee Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      Nope, Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu, New Zealand
      The world’s longest place name belongs to a hill near Porangahau in the southern Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand. It is a name given in the Maori language. This hill is 305 meters tall and is famously known for its long name. This name has since been shortened to Taumata for the ease of pronunciation. The meaning of the name has been translated to mean “the place where Tamatea, the man who had big knees, the climber of mountains, the slider, the land-swallower that traveled about, played the nose flute that he had to the loved ones.” With 85 characters, it is the longest place name in the world according to the Guinness World Records.

    • Anuj is Me

      the real longest is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

  • Lily
    Reply

    I just LOVE this website.

    • Alek Sander

      This website loves you too!

    • Matt

      Paramethoxymethaphetamine has 25 letters. Forgot about it.

    • ….

      wow im late on the website

    • Evanplayz

      Coolest website ever

  • Bryan Phillips
    Reply

    Methylphenidate or in shampoo methylisothiazolinone and methylisothiazide tributyline is a fat compound methyltertiarybutylether methylbutyltertiaryether and ethyltertiarybutylether in gasoline were damaging engines especially small engines and are no longer used. I used to be a mechanic

    • Jaz

      And Methylchloroisothiazolinone, mah dude 😎

  • Hippopotamus
    Reply

    What about kakorrhaphiophobia? Fear of failure

    • Turtle

      Isn’t that just being normal

    • Anuj is Me

      the turtle is true always

  • Emmanuel
    Reply

    The word “Tmesis” is more incredible than long words.

  • Vinoth
    Reply

    Tamil language has 247 letters

    • Gabriella

      Wow I can’t believe this

    • Christian

      What about hexacosioihexacontahexaphobia –29 letters– fear of 666?

  • Bradley Ross
    Reply

    Antidisestablishmentarianism actually has the definition for disestablishmentarianism. The attached sound clip has the definition correct. What is also interesting is that antidisestablishmentarianism is recognized by my spell checker but disestablishmentarianism is not.

    • George

      Agreed – anti-definition. What about AntidisestablishmentarianismIST!

    • Jamila harrison

      Rhombicosidodecahedron: in geometry, is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal no prismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces

  • someone
    Reply

    transdifferentiation

    • Gerry jones

      I love long words. I wish all words were longer.

  • idefkwtf
    Reply

    Just imagine you having to be a doctor and telling the patients you have Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine for 3 hours and they are already dead and you keep going on and on, even at the freaking funeral!

    • lololol

      Teacher: ok kids, how do you spell Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine?

      Kids: O_O

  • 🐲🦄😇😸
    Reply

    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia means fear of long words and is a long word!!

    • MindWalk

      But it doesn’t make sense for it to be spelled with two “p”s. The roots are “sesqui” and “pedalio,” so only one “p” makes sense. And Wiktionary agrees.

      Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

  • Robo
    Reply

    Amazing!!

    • banana

      yes

  • ^_^
    Reply

    Please add this word and put it on the 12th place (19 letters)
    Chlorofluorocarbons
    and put this on the 11th place (24 letters)
    hydrochlorofluorocarbons

    • ^_^

      I meant put hydrochlorofluorocarbons on the 9th place

    • Hippopotamus

      Electroencephalographically

    • -_-

      thought chlorofluorocarbons isn’t counted as a long word

  • James Mangong Ngor Ajang
    Reply

    I have never ever come accross such English words.It’s a great surprise.

  • scottish.cow
    Reply

    what about polyetherketoneetherketoneketone

  • Leah
    Reply

    Some people have Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia and then there’s me who has Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophilia!!

    • MindWalk

      And, I note, you correctly spell them, with “sesqui-” followed by “-pedaliophobia.” There’s no “equipped” in it.

  • Zainab
    Reply

    I am only 9 years old and I know the words pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    • Abi

      Cool

    • Leonora

      Your eleven don’t lie

  • Unknown
    Reply

    this is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • Oh yeah yeah
    Reply

    I learned a new word to flex with :] Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    • e

      same

  • Rather not say
    Reply

    I knew the first three and can pronounce the first but really no. 2, ironic how are the sufferers meant to say their condition

    • kay

      facts

  • No
    Reply

    29 letters Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine,

  • Tsehesenestsestotse
    Reply

    You missed spectophotofluorometrically, but I don’t know the definition

    • Alek Sander

      A spectrophotofluorometre is a tool for assessing the amount of light given off by something, so in its 28-letter adverbial form, we could use a sentence like “the sample was assessed spectrophotofluorometrically.”

    • miyuni

      Spectrophotofluorometrically: The relative intensities of light in different parts of a spectrum. Hepaticocholangiogastrostomy: An atrophy of the body, or a part of it. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism: An inherited disorder pertaining to thyroidism. However, there is some controversy surrounding these words

  • B r U h
    Reply

    The fear of long words’ name is ironic

    • Alek Sander

      Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!

    • Hippopotamus

      What about electroencephalographically

      • Alek Sander

        Sure – Electroencephalograph in it’s adverbial form would be electroencephalographically (27 letters).

  • Lemony Snicket lover56
    Reply

    Some of these words are confusing to spell I can’t even remember them all!!!
    I like pronouncing them though.

    • Lemon Zest ( O-O )

      Me too! They are fun to pronounce

    • Chobbis

      New-mon-oh-oul-truh-my-crow-scop-ick-silly-co-vol-cay-no-cone-ee-o-sis

  • not going to say my name
    Reply

    you missed out a word which is 24 letters long: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (it’s a disease of the lungs)

  • Unknown
    Reply

    What about antimonopologeographicationalism

  • yeet
    Reply

    I watched the whole video of the longest word, a great waste of a hour.

    • Alek Sander

      I watched it twice just to make sure. You’re right.

  • Iorwuese Lubem Amos
    Reply

    I never even knew that this kind of words exist self i try to check on Google today to see and to my greatest amazement i found it na so things they this world unless you research and see by yourself….

    • Cashie Funds

      Perhydropentanophenanring

  • Mikaela
    Reply

    Super long words!

    • Adriana

      Yep!

    • Johm M Sims

      Somewhere in the middle belongs a word I learned today in nursing school …..Esophagogastroduodenoscopy….26 letters

    • Phil Lolology

      My brain’s so bent from looking at these words I thought Johm said he learnt that word in nursery school.

  • Shahryar
    Reply

    I offer this 20 word for number 11:
    Compartmentalization

  • Jayden
    Reply

    I forgot what it’s called but the fear of the number 666 is a long word

    • Alek Sander

      Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

    • Jessica Khumalo

      I was astonished to by the compartmentisation , but guess the ones introverted are homogeneous to science but slightly heterogeneous ..

  • Fireproofsquirrel
    Reply

    What about antidisestablishmentarianism?

    • Alek Sander

      Yup, it’s listed at #6 in the post.

    • LOVE.GA

      The list is missing Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, (26 letters) also referred to as an E.D.G., it’s a diagnostic endoscopic procedure that visualizes the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract down to the duodenum.

  • # yourcommentreader..
    Reply

    This website comments just made my day 😆

    • Jennifer

      lol

    • Kay

      Lol along with Jennifer

    • Chobbis

      lol

  • Bee
    Reply

    Common usage? – ‘compartmentalisation’, 20 letters- read in a few papers today and thought ‘that’s a long word’ and so here I am.

    • Trisha

      I was bored and I googled a word and here I am. Someone posted the longest girls name is next. Lmao

  • Chris
    Reply

    Yesterday dust entered my lungs and this site helped me coz now I know that the disease I have is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    • COWS ARE COOL

      how about friggatriskaidekaphobia? It’s the fear of Friday the 13th.

  • Unicorn 🦄
    Reply

    I love the longest one! 😂

  • Divyesh
    Reply

    What is the longest word ever?!

    • Alek Sander

      You won’t find it in the dictionary, but this English word has 189,819 letters (Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine). There’s a video posted above just in case you want to know how to pronounce it.

    • Umesh Kumar Chaudhary

      Great

  • LifeLang 09
    Reply

    The last word has lots of “Y”s.

  • Jane Gwyneth Caballa
    Reply

    notice they didnt put DDT-
    Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane(31)

  • steven
    Reply

    who created the last word from the list it was too long for me so when I watched it I didn’t even watch 1minute then I just closed my MacBook Pro.😂

    • James

      Lol

  • steven
    Reply

    Some videos say subscribe even if it’s just telling long words a
    few times.😂

  • Steven
    Reply

    wow so long words I think that I am having a fear of long words😀

    • Alek Sander

      😂

  • Beata Wasil
    Reply

    Doctor: You have got the fear of long words.
    Man: What is the proper name for that?
    Doctor: Its called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
    Man: *Screams and runs away*

    • Alek Sander

      😂

    • Calskee

      Hilarious!

  • Super Cat
    Reply

    Thanks iris for helping me with my assignment today. Thanks to you I feel Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!!!!!🙏🏻😁😻🥰❤️❤️

  • Super Cat
    Reply

    At my school I have 3 Mary Poppins fans. All the time they say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and I never knew what that meant, but now I know thanks to this app. And I think its a funny 😄 word to say. 😁😁

  • Scriptingtalez script
    Reply

    I memorize 3 the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Hippopotomstrosesquippedaliaphobia, and Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiois

    • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

      still didnt spell the last one right.

  • Meee
    Reply

    Rhombicosidodecahedron is a poloygon and it is 22 letters

  • Muhesi Joab
    Reply

    So many but not easy to pronounce

  • Sheryl Limon
    Reply

  • Lukas
    Reply

    for all you people who like words that nobody knows, zyzzyva (a type of tropical weevil) is the last alphabetical word.

    • Lukas

      also i advise that you guys add hepaticocholangiogastrostomy.

    • Lukas

      it has 28 it ties for 6th place

  • PewDiePie
    Reply

    Soooooooo long words! I think I am going to get hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!!!

    • Alek Sander

      Lol… Best comment so far!

  • Falguni Sharma
    Reply

    This was mind boggling stuff I’ve come across in a long time. Keep on penning down such blogs often.

    • Laura Grugle

      The biggest word than I’ve ever known was Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • 100123
    Reply

    Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.

  • Tshepo Rasello
    Reply

    those are some long words but it only took me a few minutes to learn pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • JJM
    Reply

    Whatever happened to “semiphotospectroheliographically”

  • Lina Fei
    Reply

    How about Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaearuripukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu

    • Alek Sander

      I can’t find any information that this is a real word. Source please.

    • hi

      it is the name of a hill in New Zealand.

    • Chobbis

      it seems like the words all have to be English. The name of the hill in New Zealand, which you just stated, was Maori, which is the language of the indigenous people of new zealand.

  • soo· pr· ka· luh· fra· juh· li· stuhk· ek· spee· a· luh· dow· shuhs
    Reply

    How did Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious become a real word in the dictionary from a show? And yes I am too lazy to search it my self. Also, the girl with the longest name try and beat that.

    • Ofre Timothy otiede

      Which one is the shortest in the dictionary

    • Hippopotamus

      The shortest word without vowels is Cwtch, but the shortest word with vowels is euouae. But basically, A and I are the shortest words ever

    • stephanie

      what does supercalifragilisticexpialidocious mean

      • Alek Sander

        Use your imagination. Walt Disney encouraged imagination.

    • Cole the 10 year old

      MARY POPPINS MAN!!

  • BillGates
    Reply

    good job

  • Gail Warren
    Reply

    paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde

    • Alek Sander

      Oooooh good one!

    • Hippopotamus

      Establishmentarianism, establishmentarian, antiestablishmentarianism (don’t know if it’s fully considered a word).

    • Arjun

      Micropachycephalosaurus has 23 letters, too!

  • shelley
    Reply

    wow, looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong English word!

  • Joshua Griffiths
    Reply

    wow good job for pronouncing that long word your amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Sam
    Reply

    what about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

    • Mujtaba

      It means fantastic

    • Emerald

      The best word around

  • Backnineblues
    Reply

    How about “uncharacteristically”

    • Abimbola

      Yup we’re living in a floccinaucinihilipilification world however it’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious when life is faithful to us

  • Harry Green
    Reply

    Common long word:

    Uncharacteristically – 20 digits

    • David

      Amorphophalouscompanulatuse

      • Alek Sander

        This is great. The comments are making this the best blog post ever!!!

    • Kevin

      credit for you people commenting and a person who made this

    • Ella

      digits are for numbers, letters are for words

  • XxSmartiexX
    Reply

    floccinaucinihilipilification-the estimation of something as worthless – 29 letters.

    • XxSmartiexX

      sry didnt see it up there

  • IM NOT A ROBOT (OR AM I)
    Reply

    Euouae is the longest word with only vowels.

    • XxSmartiexX

      what does it mean?

    • This Is You

      yeah what it mean

    • Don’t be Lazzzy peeps

      look it up, y’all have internet

    • Hippopotamus

      Euouae (/ju:’u:I:/) or Evovae is an abbreviation used in Latin psalters and other liturgical books to show the distribution of syllables in the differentia or variable melodic endings of the standard Psalm tones of Gregorian chant.

  • Me (AGAIN)
    Reply

    Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine, longest known protien. It has 189,819 letters.

  • Idk
    Reply

    Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

    29 characters is the fear of the number 666

    • Anonymous

      =Plz add da protein that has 189819 letters. PLS

      • Alek Sander

        Done!

  • Bobby Bentrus
    Reply

    chlorofluoromethane almost made it! That was funny

  • Paul Nowak
    Reply

    This post was just updated to include videos with pronunciation. Good luck trying to verbalize these words!

  • Unknown
    Reply

    What about PSEUDOPSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM??

    • Unknown

      Its 30 letters so it would fall as 4th or 5th place in this.

    • Paul Nowak

      Good catch. Updated!

    • Me (AGAIN)

      Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine, longest known protien. It has 189,819 letters. TOO LONG

  • Nancy
    Reply

    I am reading this because of my school compdition ?

  • Jaxson
    Reply

    Wheres Hippopotomonstrosesquipwdaliophobia. It’s 35 letters.

  • georgie
    Reply

    dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is 31 letters. It’s a chlorine compound

    • Alek Sander

      That’s a good one. Thanks! We’ll update the post.

  • basher
    Reply

    what About Congratulations ?

  • Harshee Patel
    Reply

    These are words I’ve never heard

    • xXYeahItsMeCreeperXx

      what the @:!? they made that words
      but,How about Marshmallow?

      • Alek Sander

        Marshmallows are delicious!

    • technocrat

      Several of them were really just made up for the purpose of creating ridiculously long words. For example, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is not a legit medical word. You won’t find it in any medical dictionary. The words for what it means are pneumoconiosis (pneumonitis caused by fine particles/dust) and silicosis (pneumonitis caused by silicon particles). I’ve seen those 2 combined into pneumosilicosis and *maybe* even pneumosilicoconiosis, but DEFINITELY not the 45 letter version.

  • bob
    Reply

    that is a good word

  • ???
    Reply

    This is a good website but you could also add Antidisestablishmentarianism which has twenty-eight letters and is originally described opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, but now it may refer to any opposition to withdrawing government support of a particular church or religion.

    • Paul Nowak

      We have updated our post to reflect your added wisdom! Thank you!

    • @feminoofdips

      Mrs gargantuan
      I caught you here
      ??

  • KAREN BLUMENTHAL
    Reply

    YOU LEFT OUT HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA

    FEAR OF LONG WORDS….

    • Oh my goodness

      That’s literally what I came here for… also it’s hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia… that’s too long to write here (0^0)

    • Hannah

      Is that actually a thing

    • bro

      Yes don’t forget hippopotomostreusquippdeloilaphobia

      • Alek Sander

        Thanks! We’ll update the post.

    • Paul Nowak

      Updated. #2 on the list!

    • technocrat

      hippopotomostreusquippdeloilaphobia, like some of the other words on this list, were really just made up for the purpose of creating really long words. The more widely accepted word meaning ‘fear of long words’ is sesquipedalophobia…still long enough to be ironic and funny ;)

    • Cole the 10 year old

      No that was the second one on the list. Or third. Or fourth. I HAVE NO IDEA

    • Mason Merchant

      hemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver – the 512th note in music